Check out Lawrenceville's TRYP by Wyndham hotel

PITTSBURGH — To hear Jessica Lawrence tell it, the development team behind the new TRYP by Wyndham hotel in Lawrenceville didn't plan for it to be an "art hotel."

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While art hotels are a species of boutique hotel popping up in other cities, the new TRYP by Wyndham, that emerged out of an empty former school that had sat neglected for 10 years, was an exercise in attention to detail. And art throughout it became the logical outcome.